Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Welcoming Fall

Hello everyone,Labor Day Weekend was my very first fair, and I had a great time! If you took my business card and landed here welcome :) The last part of this blog post will discuss the blog contest and how it works. Following that is the Global Giving update.

The last two winners of the ice cream blog contest theme are the red, white and blue popscicle, and the orange and cream popscicle. Winners, please email me your address at sweetandsavorytrinkets@yahoo.com
Blog Contest.
I just wanted to give a brief explanation for those of you new to the blog. My blog is basically a running contest. Most of my posts will announce the previous winners, and the new theme. To enter you simply make food suggestions that go along with the theme in the comment section of the blog.

Here are the rules
1. Read through the suggestions made to make sure that you aren't duplicating someones answer.
2. You can make as many suggestions you like, but only one a day.
3. Make suggestions for foods that I don't already have in the store (I will announce them in the blog).
That is it :)

You can start making suggestions now, get creative, if there is a specific idea or colors please feel free to describe what you have in mind. for example instead of Christmas cupcake, how about a cupcake with a candy cane on it.
Maybe suggest the foods you love to eat at your holiday dinners and parties.
Have fun!!

Thank you every one. I will post the first winners by October 1st.

Disaster Relief Donations.
After the big quake and Tsunami in Japan, I decided to donate a small percentage 2.5% of my sales to disaster relief charities. So far I have donated to three charities, you can track the progress and see my donations here. So far I have donated 437.00 from sales!!! Thank you all : ). As more donation are made I will provide the link here on the blog.

XD Heather! I just followed the link you gave me to your blog! What a great surprise! For a Christmas suggestion, how about iced sugar cookies in the shapes of: A Christmas tree, Santa, presents, stockings, reindeer, candycanes, a sled, tin horns, and angels? That way there can be a lot of variety and you could use them to make bracelets, charms, and earrings. For a deluxe set of earrings, you could use very small chains and hang a set of three cookies on each earring, one from the other, or from three different chains. I hope this helps! I am absolutely stuffed with ideas for these things already! ^-^

^u^ Okay, one last idea! For Halloween, how about the traditional Jack-o-Lantern candy pail filled to the brim with a mixture of candies? To simplify the work on making the even smaller candies, why not wrap various shapes of baked clay (spheres, cubes, cylinders, etc.) in colorful pieces of foil? If you wanted to make variations on this theme (for any holiday), you could go a step further by making simplified versions of candy (think built canes in checkers, swirls, chocolate colors, caramel colors), then wrapping the little, already baked candies in semi-transparent plastic-wraps that correspond to that holiday's color pallet. Does that make sense? I got the idea by noticing that's how candy companies market their candies and draw our attention to holiday themes without actually changing their products.

Hi Ms. Heather, last night i was brain storming some holiday food ideas when i had epifiny after epifiny of holiday foods. This is one that i came up with: fuge in all kinds of flavors like white chocolate, white chocolate with peppermint candies crushed on top and inside, plain chocolate, chocolate with nuts and you could put a variaty of sprinkle color on top for each hoiliday. Well i hope this helps :)

I had another idea today. I was thinking of a circular layer cake of dark chocolate with white butter cream icing. The outside of the cake would be completely covered in orange fondant and a Jack-o-lantern's face could either be stenciled or cut out in fondant shapes over top. Then, in a less conspicuous area, a slice could be cut out of the cake. This could make a pair of earrings, a deluxe charm, or a ring.

Little gummy worms, tinfoil wrapped chocolate eyeballs, candycorn pumpkins, black and orange jellybeans! All for Halloween! Consider attaching three or four together with small chains for earrings, or putting together a charm bracelet to give the effect of "dividing up the loot" after Trick-or-treating!

I think the classic Yule Log cake would be pretty cool. Either whole, or with pinwheel slices cut off: http://static.ifood.tv/files/images/editor/images/Quick%20And%20Easy%20Ideas%20To%20Prepare%20Yule%20Log%20Dessert%20For%20A%20Yule%20Feast.jpg